It is feared a boy involved in a crash with a car on a major Croydon road has suffered “life-changing” injuries.

The A23 Brighton Road remained closed in Purley, between Old Lodge Lane - near Reedham station - and the junctions for Stoats Nest Road and Smtham Downs Road at 9.50am on Monday (December 10) - an hour and a half after the crash.

The collision involved a car and a pedestrian, a boy who police believe is a teenager.

Met Police were called by the London Ambulance Service (LAS) at 8.23am and have closed the road in both directions. Traffic is tailing back through Coulsdon and along the Coulsdon Bypass and in the other direction through Purley Cross and along the A22 in Kenley.

A Met Police spokeswoman said: “Officers attended and found the pedestrian, a boy believed to be in his teens, suffering injuries.